Notice, the namespace name actually corresponds the workspace name in GeoServer. For example, a request to get capabilities specifically for Radar namespace: You may also request GetCapabilites directly for a specific namespace by including the namespace name into URL path. The layer description includes also some other important information like BoundingBox and CRS. The BoundingBox and CRS can be found from the layer description even if they are not shown above in the partial layer description.Īs an example, some of the supported weather forecast layers:Īs an example, some of the supported radar service layers: Temperature forecast from hirlam weather model For example, the description for Weather:temperature-forecast layer in the XML response looks like this: All the information are picked from the response. The information that the GIS application shows for a user from the response of GetCapabilities request are map layer name, title and abstract. The address where the Open Data WMS of the Finnish Meteorological Institute is running is. For a GIS application, user gives only the URL address of the service and the GIS application makes requests needed for getting a map layer. The response is also human-readable but we suggest to use some Geographic Information System (GIS) or a library for getting map layers easily. The machine-readable XML response includes information about the supported map layers and request parameters of the Open Data WMS. Information about the WMS service can be queried by using GetCapabilities request: GetCapabilities request returns service metadata
WMS URL EXAMPLE DOWNLOAD
WMS services of the Finnish Meteorological Institute are not intended as primary means of accessing open data, and the usage is more limited than for the Download service. Direct use of the WMS service of the Finnish Meteorological Institute for other than evaluation purposes is not allowed because of the high network bandwidth and processing requirements.For example, if you wish to use weather radar data in your web or mobile application, you must first download the radar data using the WFS Download service and then provide the radar images to your application yourself.
Web Map Service (WMS) of the Finnish Meteorological Institute provides visualized observations, weather radar images and forecast layers.